Viewing Geospecific Google AdSense From a Different Area If you are outside of the US area and you want to view AdSense ads as if you were a US user, there are ways you can do it. One way is to go through a US proxy of some sort, but that can be hard for …

Google Talk & Contextual Ads Gmail is going to be adding new features that integrates Google Talk, Google’s instant messaging service, with Gmail, Google’s email service. Way back before Google had an instant messaging service, we joked about contextual ads in instant messaging chats. But it seems like we are not that far off now. …

Ready Made Google AdSense Sites A WebmasterWorld thread named Buying AdSense Ready Site discusses the pros and cons of buying a site that is for sale, for the purpose of making AdSense revenues. Performing a Google search on ready adsense sites you get the WebmasterWorld thread, but then many listings of sites that are for …

Reciprocal Link Exchanges – Don’t Get Cheated Outstanding post by martinibuster, moderator of the Link Building Forum at WebmasterWorld, on the thread named I was Cheated on a Reciprocal Link. His advice? Basically, – You don’t exchange links with any page with a white bar. – Don’t exchange links with any site that has a …

Google AdSense Earning Decrease Also? The other day we reported that YPN EPC Was Decreasing and we offered possible explanations as to the reason. However, today, I noticed a featured thread at WebmasterWorld named Declining eCPM where members share their experience noticing that although traffic is rising on some sites, the earnings for those impressions …

Google Releases Desktop AdWords Editor I first spotted this a couple days ago at Gary Price’s SEW Blog entry named Google Quietly Beta Testing Desktop AdWords Editor. AdWords Editor is Google’s free, downloadable account management application for your computer. Now you can download your AdWords account to your computer, make your changes, then upload your …

Yahoo! Helping Splogs and Google Earn Money? Marcia posted a thread at Search Engine Watch forums named Plagiarism, Splogs and Search Engine Spam where she quoted a blog entry at Plagiarism Today named Why Sploggers Splog The snippet Marcia selected was ironic, to say the least. One of the interesting things that came out of …

US Government Wants Search Engine Data Danny Sullivan sums it up nicely in his SEW blog entry named Bush Administration Demands Search Data; Google Says No, Others Comply where he says; The Bush administration wanted one million random web addresses and records of all Google searches for a one week period. The government apparently wants …

Links from Pixel Advertising Pages Almost all Webmasters are aware of the Million Dollar Homepage, what a great idea (in hindsight). But let’s look at these types of sites from a link building stand point. I have a client that advertised on this site and it brought in a ton of traffic, guess what, I …